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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2 : Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4 : College Life.—September , 1826 , to September , 1830 .—age, 15 -19 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5 : year after College.—September , 1830 , to September , 1831 .—Age, 19 -20 . (search)
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 6 : Law School .—September , 1831 , to December , 1833 .—Age, 20 -22 . (search)
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 7 : study in a law office .—Visit to Washington .—January , 1854 , to September , 1834 .—Age, 23 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8 : early professional life.—September , 1834 , to December , 1837 .—Age, 23 -26 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 9 : going to Europe .—December , 1837 .—Age, 26 . (search)
Chapter 9: going to Europe.—December, 1837.—Age, 26.
From his boyhood Sumner had longed to visit Europe, and with his reading of history this desire grew into a passion.
The want of the necessary funds compelled him to postpone its gratification until he had in part earned them, and won friends who would advance the rest.
A circumstance gleaned from the letters of Browne and Hopkinson, which occurred during his last year in the Law School, is significant of his earnestness in this direction.
He nearly completed, at that time, a negotiation by which a gentleman was to defray his expenses for a year's travelling abroad, in consideration of certain personal services to be rendered at home.
Its details are not preserved; but the two classmates, who did not hear of the proposed arrangement until it had fallen through, upbraided him in a friendly way for proposing to assume an obligation which they thought would compromise his personal independence.
This strong desire, increasing